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"Is $5,000 what owners of other cars pay for similar driver-assist features?" Although at its core, that's what Autopilot is (nothing more than Lane-Keep Assis
by audionemesis 8y ago
"Is $5,000 what owners of other cars pay for similar driver-assist features?"
Although at its core, that's what Autopilot is (nothing more than Lane-Keep Assist and Adaptive Cruise-Control), to leave it at that is not giving it enough credit. Tesla's Autopilot is far beyond any other manufacturer's drive-assist features that I have personally driven (and I tested quite a few before purchasing my Model S).
In fact, a lot of people are saying that how well the assist features work is part of the reason why we saw the unfortunate fatality where the Model X ran right into a median. It is so good that people (wrongly) begin to place too much trust into it, and don't pay attention when they need to. When I first got my car (Feb 2017), it was shortly after the big MobileEye departure, and TeslaVision was still in its infancy. Never in a million years would I have taken my hands off the wheel or stopped paying attention when using this early version of TeslaVision AutoPilot. That thing tried to kill me more than once. The current version works very, very well and I'm totally happy with having paid and additional $5,000 for it.